With the smaller size and higher quality, H.265/HEVC codec has become more and more popular codec used by more camcorder brands. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, promises twice the compression possible with Blu-ray’s best video compression methods. But how does it work, and is it enough to get us better-looking 4K content. Unfortunately, H.265 has not be popular enough to accepted by most NLEs like EDIUS, players or devices so we need some third-party H.265/HEVC Video Converter that can handle this kind of codec much well.

EDIUS Pro supported format for file import:

From the above table lists, we can see there EDIUS Pro has no file import support for H.265/HEVC compressed 4K video files. Therefore, how to successfully import H.265/HEVC to EDIUS becomes a hot issue. Since EDIUS lacks GPU acceleration for transcoding H.265/HEVC 4K video files, you will need to employ a third-party application to perform the video codec transcoding process for you. After multiple testing, I found Pavtube Video Converteris the best option. It is able to convert H.265/HEVC to EDIUS friendly format MPEG-2 easily with the best video quality. Besides H.265/HEVC, this video convert program can also help to convert between any popular video and audio formats as you need. Plus, with the built-in video editing feature of the program, you can trim, crop, add watermark and more to your video files.

Step 1: As soon as you download and install the program, launch it and when the main interface pops up in front of us, just click the "Add Video" or "Add from Folder" to let in.

Step 2: Click the drop-down list in the format line to get the format box. Then choose "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas>>MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" as output format.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.